No sight of the baiji
Personal memory by Luolan B.
2006 CE • Wuhan, Hubei, China
I was born in Wuhan, often reading about baiji, a freshwater dolphin, in newspapers. I never witness a live baiji because it went into extinction after many attempts to locate wild individuals failed.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: Roland Seitre, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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